See, I'd be with you with this interpretation, were it not for the fact that a solid >70% of consent screens I've seen blatantly violate the GDPR in a number of

See, I'd be with you with this interpretation, were it not for the fact that a solid >70% of consent screens I've seen blatantly violate the GDPR in a number of ways, so if this process is what happened, legal done fucked up. Not "subtly getting a minor detail wrong", but "doing something that is explicitly mentioned as not allowed" levels of wrong.